Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...

The intricate whorls and striations of dust that drift between the stars have just been revealed in stupefying detail.

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

Shocks, cosmic rays and x-rays seem to ionise and fragment saturated molecules via mechanisms that result in structures with ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers of interstellar dust and gas ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

A light echo is created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust and causing them to shine in an ever-expanding pattern.